The Australian US missiles kill 8 in northwest PakistanSat 1 Jan 2011| A US missile strike killed eight alleged militants in northwest Pakistan on the final day of a year that has seen a major escalation in drone attacks targeting insurgents flowing into neighbouring A... (photo: AP / Ijaz Muhammad)

The Australian US-Pakistan rift puts war on terror on fragile footingSat 1 Jan 2011| AS a sign of the times in the nominally close American ally Pakistan, it could not be more telling. | First, the US CIA's top clandestine officer in Islamabad, its station chief, was forced to flee ... (photo: AP / Ijaz Muhammad)